The Original Capel Garmon Iron Age Firedog, St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff, Wales

24/09/2023. Capel Garmon, Wales. Horse.

Capel Garmon burial chamber

1822 Saturday 20 July

6 10/60

1 1/2

My aunt called me at 6 10/60 - got up immediately - all quite ready for being off after breakfast - my aunt and I went out a few minutes before 8 - walked to the top of the hill behind the hotel - The view is certainly very fine - high water  - very hot and close, portending rain - returned to the house, turned down a narrow sort of passage lane to the shore of the Menai, thence along the fashionable walk of the town (a sort of rampart-walk, broad and neatly gravelled) at the foot of the town-wall along the Menai - round the castle to queen Eleanor’s gate - here (at 9 10/60) my aunt (being a little rheumatic) left me and returned home - I pursued the stream of or rather river along the Seiont in pursuit of traces of old Segontium - passed a little square remain - came to a bridge of 2 or 3 arches across the river (beautifully wooded for a considerable distance on the opposite bank) a neat white washed house or 2, a turnpike and 2 roads on the other side, and little cascade just on this side of the bridge and very pretty view - turned up the hill on my left - an uneven surfaced stony grass-grown mound, probably the site of ancient buildings - crossed a field and came into a road - passed close by the farm-house, built adjoining the round tower remain of the old Roman fortification - the wall seemed the farm-yard boundary on one side, and so covered with ivy on the other I could make nothing of it - In fact, I was uncertain about identity (foolishly not having a guide with me) and had not time to loiter. Strolled thro’ the town to the market place - fine mutton 4 d. a lb. veal 3 1/2 - Saw no beef - neat, small covered market place thence to the Goat Inn - and thence inquired my way to the bank - not open - a young man at the door, civilly let me in, and gave me 10 sovereigns for a £10 bank of England and would charge nothing - the Welsh prefer county notes to bank of England there are so many forged - went direct home by the walk along the Menai, and sat down to breakfast immediately at 10 1/4 -

Very good house - very civil people, and we may safely recommend our friends there - It would be a good place for head-quarters - Like the town of Caernarvon very much - Fine view of the castle this morning, a little from the town on the bank of the Seiont - most beautiful remain of castle architecture - Mr Battiss of the hotel saw us off, gave us his card, and hoped we had been comfortable -

Off at 11 1/4 - perhaps 1/2 mile on our road (the Beddgelert road) we came to a cottage forty or fifty yards from a neat, white washed church - at this cottage I got out and turned into the field on our right to see the old Roman wall or fort described by Bingley volume 1 page 170, et sequitor and vide Nicholson’s guide page 283 - I had seen the opposite extremity before breakfast - stopt 1/4 hour - ran along the remain inside and out to find a place free from ivy, or grass, or brushwood - it is almost wholly covered with one or the other so as to resemble a bank fence - however at the extremity of the field next the road there is a bare part which shews the Roman method of building and farther on (thro’ a gap) I discovered 1 or 2 of the small perforations so much spoken of thro’ the wall transversely - vide King’s munimenta on the Roman manner of building -

We reached here Beddgelert the Jones’ arms at 2 35/60 (Mr Jones of Caernarvon owner of the new Inn) a neat, nice house; beautifully situated to the right, a little above the village, and across the stream - planted all about and then embossed in wood - remarkably pretty - very fine drive from Caernarvon here - Bettws Garmon only 2 or 3 poor cottages - noticed Nant Mill - very pretty little cascade - quite close to the road on our right, and too little fence to protect us from the stream - noticed also Williams’ - white or yellow washed - plantations about the house (larch trees as there are here about the Inn) and very pretty - the pass or entrance to Beddgelert very narrow rugged and singly fine - on entering it, and coming down the hill, I could not help saying to my aunt this is the prettiest sublime we have seen - the village is in as it were a small basin formed by high rough mountains - the rock darkened with heath or moss and finely bare here and there - the bottom of the basin beautifully verdant with here and there trees about the few cottages, and a stream tumbling over its rocky bed thro’ the midst - it is fact far the most picturesque village we have yet met with - some very heavy showers as we came along - the clouds tremendously black - the top of Snowdon quite enveloped - got here in the beginning of a very heavy shower -

Bedgellert 1814 - image credit: Wikimedia Commons

Just 3 35/60 i.e. an hour since we got in - Looking a little at Bingley and Nicholson’s Cambrian guide - At 4 took a little girl to carry the plaid and umbrella, and set off to Dinas Emris about 1 1/2 mile on the Capel Curig road to Cwm cloch - we had gone little more than a mile, when the poor child began to cry, and I sent her back again - walked forwards 2 miles (i.e. about 1/2 mile beyond Dinas Emris) a little way along Lake Dinas - small house at the end of it, and some green fertile looking fields - a little plantation about the house - I longed to have gone further as far as Lake Gwinant - the scenery as far as I did go, very fine - got back at 5 10/60 in the midst of a heavy shower - very hot with walking -

Off from Beddgelert for Tan-y-bwlch at 5 35/60 - the scenery for the first 3 miles terrifically fine - Pont-aber-glaslyn bridge tremendous - the road for a good way down to it narrow and no fence or merely a single row great stones to guard the precipice - there is no great cataract - but the unguardedness of the road, the torrent tumbling over rocks below and the perpendicular rock to the height of 2 or 3 hundred feet on the other side form a most impressive scene - there is a turnpike just beyond the bridge, thro’ which we went up a tremendously steep hill, from which a fine view down an opening upon the Traethmawr sands - Indeed the whole stage (they called it 10 miles at Beddgelert) is tremendously hilly - the scenery is indescribably fine - the first about 3 miles and the last about 2 cannot surely be exceeded - but the whole far surpassed anything we had seen - Penman Mawr is a different sort of thing should be excepted and should not be compared with it - Very fine peeps of Wyddfa at intervals, and the Glyder vawr - never saw Wyddfa to such advantage - In short, no one travelling in Wales should miss the drive from Beddgelert to Tan-y-bwlch - the road in many places not at all fenced off from the precipice on one side - my aunt sick with fright more than once - several heavy showers as we came along just in our faces, particularly for 50 or 100 yards just after leaving Beddgelert, and for the last 1/2 mile - the Inn most beautifully situated at the foot of an almost perpendicular steep wooded from top to bottom - tremendous descending the road down it - a most comfortable Inn -

Sat down to dinner at 9 1/2 (got here in 2 20/60 hour at 5 minutes before 8) fryed salmon, a very small fish cut in slices - a roasted loin of mutton and apple tart and cream - the best potatos I have tasted in Wales - the mutton most excellent, the best we have had - we have enjoyed our dinner exceedingly and both had a nap since - my aunt is just gone to bed - instead of wine, a bottle of very fair cider - they get it from Bristol - Did not begin this page till 10 50/60, and it is now 11 1/2 - Very heavy showers repeatedly during the day - but tho’ we had our coats etc dried at Beddgelert and here, we escaped getting much wet - 12 miles from Caernarvon to Beddgelert 10 from Beddgelert here the roads roughish and very hilly, very particularly this last stage, yet Percy came in not at all tired - He is a capital gig-horse - went upstairs to bed at 11 40/60 - Sat up reading Nicholson’s Cambrian guide, article Harlech, etc - and looking over our accounts - a great deal of discharge yesterday and today and ever since I left home -

Reference: SH:7/ML/E/6/0029

The Wyrm and the Wyrd: A tomb with a view

The Wyrm and the Wyrd: A tomb with a view

We weren’t lost exactly. We knew exactly where we were. Back in Betws y Coed, where the falls tumble with such speed and grace they were named for the swallow. We had just come through there… and on a hot Sunday afternoon, it is  full of tourists and the narrow streets make turning around a bit on the dodgy side. The trouble was, we needed to be beyond the town, up in an unnamed field, somewhere…

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Start Up of Rucksack Walks

Hi every body,

O.D.A.Rucksack walks for Spring & Summer 2021.

Fri.28th May.

Meet Ken by the entrance to Penrhym Castle for a walk to the bridge over

the Ogwen river on the A5& back via the Rugby field.

Fri.11th June.meet Elfynin the car park by the caffi in Brynrefail for a

walk to Mynydd Bodafon & return.

Fri. 25th. June.

Meet Gareth in the car park by the Bowling Green in Conwy for a walk

along the River & up through the woods & back.

Fri.9th. July.

Meet Elfyn off the X5 Bus at Capel Graig Penrhosgarnedd for a walk to

Vaynol & along to Britannia Bridge & Menai Suspension Bridge return via bus.

Fri.23rd.July.

Meet Elfyn by the Caban Brynrefail for a walk along old Miners tracks &

Clwt Y Bont & return.

Fri.6th. August.

Meet Gareth in the small car park by Waterloo Bridge & walk up to Capel

Garmon & the Neolithic Tomb & return.

Fri.20th.August.

Meet Ken at Cadnant Park SH777777 for a walk up Conwy Mountain & back.

All Walks Start At 10.30.

Regards Ken.

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